Art: Arms of Chivalry

Knighthood in all its panoply was on display again last week in
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. To the delight of youngsters
and oldsters alike, the Met's armor collection, second only to the
great European collections in Vienna, Madrid and Paris, was back after
five years in storage and on loan while the collection's ten galleries
and corridors were being renovated. There was no doubt that the armor
had been missed; up to 2,800 visitors a day thronged the main,
banner-decked central court, to see the pick of an array that ranges
from the earliest complete set of Gothic armor to...